April 8, 2012, Sunday

A Super Bowl advertisement from Honda does a riff on the 1986 movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off,'' complete with Matthew Broderick feigning illness. Is that copyright infringement? Honda apparently didn't take the chance.

February 3, 2012, Friday

One of the most talked about Super Bowl commercials - at first, on the basis of a 10-second teaser - features Matthew Broderick in a tribute to his long-remembered role in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in advertisement for the Honda CR-V.